A star is born! Raef from the Apprentice was a guest on the first episode in the new series of “8 Out Of 10 Cats” and he was mostly pretty funny, but quite simply hilarious when he was asked who he would least like to share a car with and he simply said, “a rapist”. Funniest moment on TV all week! Check it out on the clip below at about 4 min 35.
I caught Episode 5 of Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong on Friday night. It really is one of the funniest things on TV. It sets a team of celebrities against “civilians”. The celebs for this edition were Johnny Vegas, Jermaine Jackson (what’s he still doing here?), Sara Cox, Jenni Falconer and Lee Ryan (hubba!). Alan is so funny, managing to say completely outrageous things about the plebs but without actually causing offence. Really, the show is all about him and his humour - the competition and the guests are just a device to let him run riot. The only duff notes are when the civilians try a bit too hard to be funny. Loved this joke:
I got dragged into a lap dancing club in Blackpool. God, it was ropey. One of the dancers had run out of baby oil and was using Febreeze.
If you missed Celebrity Ding Dong, you can catch it again by downloading 4oD.
This episode largely centered around Sid. Now, Sid is inherently a depressing character. Everything about smacks of misery. Unfortunately this misery was compounded by an insight into his awful family, and then finding his dad dead in the armchair. There was some light relief, with Anwar and Sketch being caught using Sid’s bed by his mum, but all in all , this was really depressing episode.
If you want to be depressed too, you can catch the episode on 4oD.
In last night’s final, John won this year’s version of Celebrity Big Brother - where talented young people made up the housemates and celebrities took over as Big Brother. John, who is a young Scottish politician - cruelly labelled by some as the “honey monster” - probably had this competition sewn up on the first night when he was forced to undertake a number of cringemaking, humiliating tasks at the behest of first hijacker, Matt Lucas. Telling Jeremy - a young racing driver who confuses cynicism with intelligence - he looked like Harry Potter was my personal favourite.
Personally, I would have bet serious money that Anthony would have won. Great looking, all round nice guy, he seemed a shoe-in to me, but we should never ever underestimate the power or the Scottish bloc vote - see Michelle McManus and X-Factor’s Leon for evidence. To be fair though, John did seem a genuine person and very well adjusted.
This was also Dermot’s last outing as a Big Brother presenter, as he is now giving it up to concentrate on X Factor in the Summer.
What did you think of Big Brother Celebrity Hijack? Did John deserve to win?
Catch up with this and other Channel 4 shows by using the free catch up service, 4OD.
Did you see that? Well the good news is that even if you didn’t see that, you most likely still can thanks to the TV catch up services now offered by the main terresterial broadcasters.
BBC - The BBC has iPlayer, which lets you download selected show from the last week and keep them for a further week. The software and various logins are clunky and it only works on XP, but once you start using it and find your feet, it’s really useful.
ITV - ITV.com has an integrated Flash based video player which lets you watch live TV or selected shows from the ITV archives.
Channel 4 - Channel 4 has launched 40D, which is similar to iPlayer except you get 30 days to download programs and you can also pay for movies and classic show downloads.
The unique Russell Brand started his new show last night with a look at childhood.
The program was brilliant stand up from the living legend himself, interspersed with TV clips, such as the rick pickings of old public safety videos, that Brand was able to tease every comedic angle out of.
It reminding me slightly of a high octane version of the Bob Mills’ classic, In Bed With Me Dinner. With all the tabloid shenanigans, it’s easy to forget that Brand is actually one of the funniest comics we have at the moment. Ponderland reminds us of what he does best.
Catch up with Ponderland on Channel 4’s TV Catch Up Service - 4oD
The comedically named Billi Bhati was the latest evictee from the Big Brother house last night. He faced the public vote alongside Tracey and Carole, but the chemically-straightened model found himself cast out. He had claimed to be a fan of the show and had various strategies to eliminate those he saw as being weak, but he forgot the most basic tactic of surviving in the house - not being disliked. You can be hated outside the house and not have a problem, but if your housemates don’t like you, all the strategies in the world won’t help you.
Bye bye Billi.
Irish prankster Seany has been evicted from the Big Brother House.
He went up against Jonathan and Carole in the public vote, and the great British public decided to send him packing. Charley was her usual two faced self when she expressed shock at who could have wanted to vote him out despite having nominated him.
I found him annoying, and also potentially dangerous when he recklessly pushed Charley into the pool, but you had to pity him when he was genuinely gutted to have voted out.
In a special mid week live episode, Big Brother decided to play a little game with the housemates. Big Brother announced that the £100,000 prize money was in the diary room. This weeks nominated housemates - Jonathan, Carole and Seany - were sent to the diary room and had to decide amonst them who should get the money. They decided to give it to Liam.
When he was told of their decision, he appeared at first sight to be massively underwhelmed. But it was actually the complete opposite and he soon broke down in tears.
Will he keep the money or will there be further twists? What incentive do the other housemates have now? Maybe some will walk?
Liam was the bookies favourite, so chances are he would have ended up with the money anyway.
What do you think?
Use the comments form to say who you would have given the money to…
Seany entered the Big Brother house on Friday night, and has quickly made his presence known.
First he pulled the blanket from Lesley’s bed whilst she was asleep. She left the Big Brother house the next day.
Then he decides that he and Gerry will share the double bed and informs Chiggy of his decision. He went through the motions of asking them if it was ok, but he clearly already decided.
And in a chat with the housemates, he revealed he briefly turned to Islam after 9/11, and that realised he was gay in his 20s after 5 serious girlfriends.
Sorry, don’t like him. This guy’s going to be the source of friction in the house!